by Suzanne Gamboa
The Trump administration is shutting off protections for people who
have lived in the United States for nearly two decades and has started
the clock on their forced return to violence-plagued, politically
volatile and poverty-stricken Honduras.
The Department of Homeland
Security announced it was ending the protection for Hondurans but has
delayed the shutdown date until Jan. 5, 2020, about 18 months, sending
the actual termination of the protections into the next presidential
election year.
Hondurans
are the latest group living in the U.S. under Temporary Protected
Status, or TPS, to be told their time here is up or nearly so. They were
first allowed to remain in the U.S. legally and work here in 1998 when
Hurricane Mitch wreaked havoc on the country. The hurricane killed 7,000
in Honduras and 11,000 in Central America. It caused billions in
damages and deepened poverty in the region.
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Source: NBC News
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